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uncomfortable, insomuch that a return to the open air 

 acts as a sort of relief, and one feels but little desire to 

 re-enter. Such, at least, were our own impressions; 

 but we strongly recommend the wandering angler to 

 judge for himself, as the building in itself, and apart 

 from such associations, is really very magnificent and 

 impressive. 



The public library, which is open every day at six 

 o'clock for a few hours, containing upwards of forty 

 thousand volumes the collection of pictures and anti- 

 quities the Hotel de Ville and the theatre are all 

 worthy of notice. This town was the birth-place of 

 Damiens, the assassin of Louis XV., and of the two 

 brothers Robespierre, deputies to the National Conven- 

 tion (one of whom has obtained such a dreadful noto- 

 riety), who were beheaded in 1794; and also of the 

 celebrated naturalist, Palissot. 



iftapaume* 



This town is situated near the sources of the rivers 

 Sensee and Encre, both of which are good trout-streams, 

 and well worth his notice, if his ramblings lead him in 

 this direction. The Sensee falls into the Scheldt, about 

 ten miles above Valenciennes; and the Encre, after 

 passing the small town of Albert, loses itself in the 

 Somme, a few miles above Amiens. At Bapaume, the 

 marriage between Philip Augustus and Isabella of Hain- 

 ault was solemnised; and here we may be allowed to 

 bring to the angler's remembrance an event in this 

 monarch's life, as remarkable as any which the whole 

 history of France can furnish. A similar circumstance 

 occurred in our country, in the reign of John, a few 

 years later, during the sway of the same energetic pontiff, 



